yum 3.1.5 looks much better.

I did the following in Fedora Rawhide Today.

#yum clean all
#yum makecache
#time echo "n" | yum update -C

Transaction Summary
============================================================
=================
Install      2 Package(s)        
Update      52 Package(s)        
Remove       2 Package(s)        

Total download size: 89 M

real    3m20.373s
user    2m21.146s
sys     0m15.843s

#yum update yum (upodates yum-3.1.4 -> yum-3.15)
#time echo "n" | yum update -C

Transaction Summary
============================================================
=================
Install      2 Package(s)        
Update      50 Package(s)        
Remove       2 Package(s)        

Total download size: 89 M

real    0m34.567s
user    0m20.431s
sys     0m3.746s

3m20s -> 34s, that a big improvment.

Tim
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